Fact · Voice privacy and security
July 10, 2019date
Google told the Hamburg data protection authority that it had suspended human reviews of Google Assistant audio across all of Europe on July 10, 2019, after learning of a data leak.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“manually suspend audio reviews of Google Assistant across the whole of Europe, and doing so on July 10, after learning of the data leak”
Google ordered to halt human review of voice AI recordings over privacy risks, Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch, 2019, Body, paragraph on Google's reply to the regulator.
Open the original- What it measures
- Google's reply to the Hamburg regulator came after a language reviewer leaked Dutch-language recordings to a Belgian broadcaster. The Hamburg regulator had signalled an urgency order under Article 66 of the GDPR.
- What it does not show
- This is Google's account of its own action, as reported by TechCrunch. The reported date is the one Google gave the regulator.